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In August we are looking at tabletop RPGs with culinary themes.

Story Bake is a TTRPG about the magic of baking, the power of friendship, and finding wonder in the world! The creator Dan is a professional baker and combines their love of baking and games with Story Bake, and will share their story with us today on a live recording.

The game comes with a full ...

Using an original RPG system, Ready Set Bake is ideal for roping in family members and friends who aren't familiar with RPGs but love baking and cooking shows.

This week we’ll be speaking to Jaye and Dave Eisinger to find out more about this GBBO-inspired mini-RPG. The game has recipe challenges, secret ballot voting, and a guided mad-lib recipe generator.

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Not DnD is a weekly show discussing tabletop roleplaying games. Each week EN Publishing’s @tabletopjess interviews the creators behind different tabletop roleplaying games that aren’t D&D! You can watch the live recording every Monday at 5pm ET / 10pm BST on YouTube or Twitch, or listen on the podcast platform of your choice. In August we are looking at tabletop RPGs with culinary themes. Take a look at these delicious TTRPGs...

Today on Not DnD we are looking at SHIFT, a new game system from Hit Point Press. The system is centred around traits and a Shift dice mechanic, which allow the GM and players to collaboratively world build as part of gameplay.

There are options rules which allow you to adjust the complexity of the game and customise it to your needs, but the core rule offer simple and fast gameplay.

First released in 2008, Five By Five is a rule lite ttrpg using d6 powered by the h5 (high-five) mechanic. You roll two d6 dice and multiple the numbers on both die (for example role a 4 and a 2, your result is 8).

The game has a simple core mechanic, but also robust rules for character creation, task resolution, combat and character advancement.

Find out more as we speak to Jeff Moore on t...

First Encounter is a rules-lite fantasy RPG designed to be played with minimal setup, zero preparation and a Kobold's hoard of generic fantasy tropes.

Play as a party of intrepid (maybe slightly trepid?) Creaturefolk, defending your homes from the ever-expanding Venture Town and the wicked Enpecies (NPCs) who dwell within it. Worse yet, they have called in the most dangerous of all known ...

Not DnD is a weekly show discussing tabletop roleplaying games. Each week EN World’s Jessica Hancock interviews the creators behind different tabletop roleplaying games that aren’t D&D!

Throughout July 2025 we are looking at TTRPGs with accessible mechanics. Sometimes learning a new ttrpg can feel like a chore, or a difficult task. These games look to remove that barrier as much as possible.

In Galactic & Going Rogue you play rebels, soldiers, spies, and criminals, or perhaps someone who simply picked up and blaster and said "enough is enough."

A GM less game for 2-6 players which takes inspiration from Galactic, Rogue One, and Andor.

Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/galacticgoingrogue/galactic-and-going-rogue-two-ttrpgs-of-war-among-the-sta...

Midnight Muscadines is a cozy-dark tabletop roleplaying game where light and shadow intertwine in a fractured world. Players take on the roles of Marmateers—brave adventurers who venture into the untamed Wildernight to collect the elusive Midnight Muscadines, craft magical jams, and protect the fragile light of Nimm.

The games comes with a variety of play modes; solo, duet, GM’less and GM...

‘I Could Do This In My Sleep’ is a cyberpunk entry to DriveThruRPG’s 2025 PocketQuest game jam. Powered by a simple yet flexible character skill system, I Could Do This In My Sleep suits a group of 2 - 4 players and one game master. A modern-day cyberpunk tabletop roleplaying game where Cybernetic implants keep the masses of Great Britain on their feet and working 16 hours a day, dead to the world around them. You play someone wit...

Take on xenophobic separatists, cut throat criminals, lethal machines, and otherworldly predators as you strive for a better future together on the Frontier.

Changed Stars is a sci-fi roleplaying game set in a bright-yet-perilous future. Inspired by utopian feminist science fiction and contemporary gritty speculative futures, Changed Stars presents a modern-take on a post-patriarchal soci...

Frostpunk, the Tabletop Roleplaying Game based on the award-winning Frostpunk video games

The cold is unrelenting. It's been ten years since the end of the world. Cities depend on massive generators that provide heat, and machinery that excavates resources and grows food. Humans scramble to survive, relying on the pillars of Faith and Order to build societies that can keep residents alive...

Join us for a cozy interview of mystery, psychic prediction, community, and tea. This week we’re speaking to James Kerr about The Psychic Danger Society.

The unique mechanics of the game give you a pool of “prediction dice” which you roll at the start of the session. The players choose which dice results to use when resolving issues in the game. Each die, when put forward, is spent and go...

Runecaster is a narrative TTRPG about learning magic through spectacular failure. Play as rookie mages who cast unique spells by combining runes. Magic will just as often blow up in your face as it will light your way.

Join as we speak to Wes Zebrowski on this weeks episode of Not DnD.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pangurbancollective/runecaster-a-narr...

What does it take to survive the wilderness? Who does it take? A soldier, a talker, a hunter, a witch? Who lives and who starves? In the wilderness, food is the only thing that matters -- and while your stomachs go empty and wounds begin to ache,one thing remains truly certain... the World will Feast.

COLD SUN is a visceral roleplaying game by Robert Cambias about scarcity, survival, and adventure, for 1...

Become one of The Cunning Folk with this rules-lite dark comedy ttrpg. Use your Magick and Luck to create a whole heap of Mischief. And seek devilish revenge on mortals on the receiving end of your ire.

The Cunning folks has its own system with a simple D6 dice pool, and interestingly features a levelling DOWN as well as levelling up mechanic. The rules encourage a ‘failing forward’ style...

Join host Jessica on this week's episode of Not D&D, presented by E.N. World, as she delves into the innovative tabletop RPG 'Mapa Mundi' with creator George Francis Bickers from Three Sail Studios.

Mappa Mundi is a TTRPG driven by exploration and ecology.  Players take on the role of Chroniclers, brave souls setting out from hearth and home to travel the wilds and tell the story of this world in flux.

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